pea shake house n.— «In the days before the Muncie game, long lines of cars formed at the Cities Service gas station at Sixteenth Street and Senate Avenue, the hub of basketball betting. Paychecks were wagered in the Chrysler and Allison...
pea-shake n.— «Four times a day, six days a week, dozens of cars converge on Gypsy’s, a pea-shake house on the Near Westside, to wait on “the shake,” the drawing of the winning numbers.» —“Harmless fun or illegal blights...
India-no-place n.— «Hardly anybody writes odes to Indianapolis. No Sandburg or Gershwin has ever praised the Midwestern city’s hard American beauty. No bustling metropolis, that town; no seething cauldron of culture. Instead, folks...
India-no-place n.— «Author Kurt Vonnegut called his hometown Indianapolis a cemetery with lights that came to life once a year for the Indianapolis 500. Frustrated by lack of night life, some residents termed it “India-no-place...
chopper n.— «Witnesses told police Turner said they would take their “choppers,” a street term for automatic rifles and kill everyone in the house.» —“New Details Released in Family Killing” by Pam...
hotel-room night n.— «A “hotel-room night” is defined as the total number of hotel rooms groups take up, multiplied by the number of nights in those rooms.» —“City wants new hotel to check in Downtown” by...